There was little to indicate that we were near the spot where, 800 years ago, King John agreed to a peace treaty with his rebellious barons. Today we call that agreement Magna Carta. If we had ...

To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

And on 15 June, 1215, they met the king at Runnymede, by the Thames in Surrey, and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established ...

It was nearly 800 years ago, after all, on June 15, 1215, that a group of noblemen presented the first version of Magna Carta to King John at Runnymede, just over 20 miles west of London on the ...

This week marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Signed at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Great Charter was an agreement between King John and his barons that the King was subject to the law ...

They then forced King John to sign it. The Magna Carta, as it is most often applied, is a foundational document for democracy and human rights. For ASALH, I see our Magna Carta as a reminder that ...

Naturally. It’s on that day, after all, that I first rolled into Santa Barbara. In it, the King agreed he could no longer seize people off the street simply because he didn’t care for the cut of their ...

Are we in a constitutional crisis? More and more pundits and legal scholars think so, and for good reason. Trump repeatedly denounces judges who displease him, calling for their impeachment, and ...

King John was one of the most rotten rulers of the lot ... just a year before his rotten death, he signed the Magna Carta in 1215 - the greatest thing to come out of his reign and a document that ...